Pipe-bending tool.



116.780.7563. PATENTED JAN. 24, 1905.

A. R. LAKIN.

PIPE BENDING TOOL.

APPLICATION rnnn nov. 16,1904.

mtnesses lnrn on UNITEDv STATES Patented January 24, 1905.

ALLAN R. LAKIN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PIPE-BENDING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,756, dated January 24, 1905.

Application filed November 16, 1904- Serial No. 232,981.

tool.

The object of the invention is to provide a tool especially adapted for use in bending pipe that is being fitted in floors, partitions, and walls, so as to avoid frequent cutting and the use of elbows or angle-pieces.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a View of the tool which has made a right-angled bend in a piece of pipe. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the pipe-holding end of the tool. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the pipebending end of the tool. Fig. 4 is an elevation showing the open side of the tool.

The tool consists of a solid forged or cast body A, of metal, having an open side 6 between fixed jaws 0 d. The inner longitudinal space 6 is partly circular in cross-section to receive a pipe. The body has at a side which is at a right angle with respect to the said open side 6 an inclined screw-threaded shank f. The pi pe-holding end 9 of the body is Hat, and at this end the inner space e has a number of crosswise serrations h similar to screwthreads, which constitute the means to prevent the tool from slipping on the pipe. The jaw 0 is straight; but the fixed jaw d at the pipe-bending end has a curved lip OZ and the inner space 6, which is straight for a short stretch, widens at the side corresponding with the said curved lip, as at a, and forms a sort of a bell-shaped end. This is the pipe-bending end, and the widened or bell-shaped part 6 has a series of curved cross-serrations 7b which will impinge against the side of the pipe at the point where the bend is made and prevent slipping. A suitable length of pipe z', to serve as a lever or handle, is attached to the shankf. The screwthreaded shank f inclines in a direction away from the widened or bell-shaped part e in order to prevent the lever or handle 6 when pressed down from striking the floor or other obstacle in making a right angle bend in a pipe.

The manner of using the tool will be obvious from the illustrations and descriptions.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A pipe-bending tool comprising a solid metal bodyhaving a flat pipe-holding end, 9, and an irregular bell-shaped pipe-bending end; two fixed jaws between said endsone of which is straight and the other has at the bending end a curved lip, (2, said two jaws forming a side opening to a longitudinal inner space, 6, whichis widened or bell-shaped at one side adjoining said curved lip; crosswise serrations, h, at the pipe-holding end of said inner space; and a shank.

2. A pipe-bending tool comprising a solid body having two fixed jaws one of which is straight and the other has'at the bending end a curved lip, cl, said two jaws .forming a side opening to a longitudinal inner space, 0, which is widened or bell-shaped at one side adjoining said curved lip; and a shank which inclines in a direction away from said widened or bellshaped part.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALLAN R. LAKIN.

Witnesses:

CHAs. B. MANN, FELIX R. SULLIVAN. 

